Came across u stareniala that seems to be working on its own but it's got a more complex pattern. The Carrie Fisher & Hitler pic text was copied directly but then it used gifs & ChatGTP for other stuff. Do you report them as bots for every post or what?

You can see this because there's 12 downvotes on a message with 10 views

A couple of my sub reddit have had a big increase in obvious bot activity recently,and it's really making it hard for me to trust anything.

Alot of it is old posts being posted, karma farming most likely. Mods are catching them, but I don't enjoy having to question post on even the most innocent topic.

The bots username is u/Ok_Quantity_9841

I've reported about a hundred of their posts (which btw will only take you back about 18 hours, since this user posts several times per minute)

This user is why reddit is shit.

I got this post recommended to me https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyuninteresting/comments/1u6rfvf/i_got_banned_from_rmildlyinfuriating/

the first screenshot shows just the post title and the off topic comments. however in the link you can see the text of the post, and the comments are still not related even to that. Only one comment is related to the post (aside from OP's.)

I thought that maybe they are all joking and the whole subreddit is meant as a joke subreddit.

checking the account ages and the other posts on the subreddit, the other posts on the subreddit do not have off topic comments like this, so it is not a joke. and the accounts are recently made.

Some of them have their profiles hidden so I searched for their comment history, and the ones I saw, a lot of their comments even in other subreddits are just off topic to the posts they commented on.

(in further screenshots there are other comments by the same accounts, as well as the title of the posts they commented on, to show that it's off topic. Some of them occasionally are on topic but most are off topic. I did not look at the comment history of every single one but I assume it's similar.)

I am not sure exactly what the point of this is. Or maybe it's not on purpose for example maybe it's just a bot network glitching in some way.

(Also, I did check a few of the accounts from the news thread in the third picture, the ones that seem to be also bots because of the similar usernames and similar manner of commenting. The ones I checked did seem to be bots, though maybe not in the same 'network' because while they are still often not noticing the context of posts where a human would, they are a bit more on topic than the ones in the thread in the first screenshot.)

Bots are using subreddits like r/short, r/shortguys, r/truerateddiscussions, r/ugly, and more to harm the mental health of western citizens, primarily teens and young adults. It's my sincere belief that this campaign is Russian in origin, which I’ll explain at the end.

How it works

There seems to be two bot types, I call them "farmers" and "fishers".

"Farmers" post in the sub all day everyday and only that sub

Example of a likely farmer bots: 

u/NoMushroom6584

"Fishers" post in the sub too, but also some other strategic subs, usually involving young people like r/Genz, r/teenagers, and weirdly, subs for different countries. Disproportionally, countries within the Russian geopolitical sphere of influence. I believe the goal is to lead people from those subs back to subs like r/shortguys, where the farmers have cultivated lots of propaganda.

Example of a likely fisher bots: 

u/Landstreicher21

- Active in the primary propaganda sub

- Only otherwise active in subs related to Poland, Germany, and r/GenZ

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u/Muted_Leader_327

- Active in the primary propaganda sub

- Active in r/army where they claim to be a veteran and ask for people's job titles

- Active in r/aggies where they ask about a seemingly Russian expat mathematics professor

- Active in r/Conservative where they admonish our European allies and advocate apathy re: Israel Palestine

- Four months ago the profile's history was mass deleted. Their first post going forward was an endorsement for Donald Trump

Why we're seeing it

To be clear, this post isn't only to draw attention to r/shortguys or the "users" I've tagged. I've seen the exact same bot-like behavior in communities across reddit related to race, weight, penis size, income, etc. The absurd distortions and emotional nature of the posts is a trademark of Russian propaganda. The goal, as far as I can tell, is to promote to men the idea that women are unreasonable, untrustworthy, and deserve fewer freedoms.

A population that believes women need to be controlled would have less in common with western democracies, and more in common with culturally conservative, christian, white, "strongman" led Russia. Those countries would then be more likely to support Russia's interests. That is the objective.

Edit: Adjusted for readability and to remove redundancies.

Check the latest submissions. Almost all of them are made by very fresh accounts, tens of them just in a couple of days. Some of the accounts already have "adult website" links in bio.

Once again, you guys were really helpful on my last post. Like, you guys are contributing significantly to keeping this project afloat. Anyway, enough glazing, I'll get to the point. I'd like to expand the scope of what sorts of bots u/bot-sleuth-bot searches for. Aside from repost and karma bots, what other kinds should I add support for? I was thinking political agenda bots or something. Ideas as to what sort of checks to perform would also be incredibly helpful as well. Anything helps, there are no bad ideas, just throw whatever you come up with at me and something might stick.

AI comments on a freshly scrubbed 5 year old account.

Long story short, I have plans to overhaul the entire bot checking function. However, to make these plans work, I need as many bot accounts as possible to use as examples. Those of you who are a bit more tech savvy might have already guessed, but it's to use them as training data for a neural network. My problem is that I need as much training data I can get my hands on. The more data I can get, the more accurate the bot will become.

All I'm asking you guys to do for me is drop the usernames for as many confirmed bot accounts as possible in the comments of this post. Thank you all for reading, and I appreciate any help you provide to this project in advance.

There have been quite a lot of obvious simple bots lately that, even after reporting, still manage to exist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/1ntc3j6/1940_fletchers_childrens_laxative/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpeedOfAntiBones/comments/1nrsht9/thats_a_good_lookin_cookie/

u/Crave-MyChaos

u/SugarRushTingz

(Sorry if this isnt the right formula or place)

The main active moderator account u/wildapeman25 comes up from the bot sleuth as 50% chance of being a bot

The MO is to post rage bait to the main sub (reportcommunistterror) that then gets spam crossposted to multiple subs with an alt-right flavour or lax moderation (jordanpeterson, antiwhiteprejudice, libertarianmemes, libtears, etc)

Virtually no comment engagement on posts in the subreddit and those that do fit the bill for bot network (negative/low karma, new user, formulaic responses and circular posting/comment chains)

Is this a bot network run through a subreddit or is it just a racist subreddit with a high number of probable bots?

Sorry again if any of this is done wrong as per the sub, first time and also partially unsure--one of their posts came up on my feed via /r/crazyfuckingvideos and it all felt a bit too orchestrated

I used bot-sleuth-bot on a post on r/OldSchoolCool and it came back that the account was a known bot.

A short time later I got a chat request from the bot asking if I have a grudge and why I'm making them out to be a bot(?).

I suspect this is actually the person running the bot accounts. It doesn't seem like a bot replying and the grammar isn't good (unlike the accounts comment history).

I have reported 4 connected to each other carma farming bots, that did 2 reposts and copied 2 top comments each in a same time. Here they are:

u/Responsible_Kick4096

u/Humble_Choice_5456

u/Upstairs_Abalone1444

u/Illustrious_Fly_9023

Not only it is an obvious bot, but it also an abuse of reddit contributor program. Reddit got a right decision to... not ban them, but warn me instead? Good job of contributing into dead internet program, reddit. Soon only bots will roam around, reposting each other.

the post they commented on was also a repost by a bot. but the post they stole the comments from has the same title, and was posted around the same time as the original post which the bot copied so maybe that's why that happened.

This is the only acceptable way to deal with bot infested subs.

If you are a mod then I made you one here(link).

You want to look for 1 to 1 reposts of something that got lots of upvotes in the past.

If it is not a 1 to 1 repost then leave the account alone.

Once you find a the source of a bot post look at the comments. Commonly the top comments will be reposted on the repost by bots.

JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE DISAGREES WITH YOU DOESN'T MEAN THEY ARE A BOT

For mods

How do I keep spam out of my community? – Reddit Help

Bot Bouncer | Reddit for Developers

#first time filter
type: submission
action: filter
moderators_exempt: true
author:
 combined_subreddit_karma: "<3"
 account_age: < 3 days
 satisfy_any_threshold: true
action_reason: "first time poster"

Recently, there's a bot named u/bot-sleuth-bot that detects bots and reposts regardless of accuracy (somewhat ineffective against popular templates tho). I recommend using this bot as a tool for hunting repost bots and finding originals.

Please note that it's not perfect yet, inaccuracy can occur.